Japanese woodblock prints

Ukiyo-e

Pictures of the floating world — block-printed scenes of Edo-era life, landscape, and weather. Produced in multiples for everyday circulation, they travelled west in the 1850s and reshaped how European painters thought about composition and flatness.

2 walls · 6 pieces

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1831

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857